Oh wow - I've never heard of TCP_CORK before. Without disabling pings I'd still pay the cost of receiving way more packets, but maybe that'd be tolerable if I didn't have to send so many pongs. This is super handy; excited to play around with it.

I am aware of TCP_NODELAY (funny enough I recently posted about TCP_NODELAY to HN[1] when I was thinking about it for the same game that I wrote about here). But I think the latency hit from disabling it just doesn't work for me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359120

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joshstrange 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I missed that thread originally, the post and the comments where a good read, thank you for sharing.

I got a kick out of this comment [0]. "BenjiWiebe" made a comment about the SSH packets you stumbled across in that thread. Obviously making the connection between what you were seeing in your game and this random off-hand comment would be insane (if you had seen the comment at all), but I got a smile out of it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366291

	▲	eieio 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		wow, I missed that comment, that's an incredible connection. Thank you!